(L to R) Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chano-cha, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, U.S President Barack Obama, Laos Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, Philippines Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak pose for photo during ASEAN-U.S. Summit in VientiaBarack Obama defended his efforts to 'rebalance' U.S. foreign policy toward Asia on Thursday even as he wound up the final visit of his presidency to the region with the South China Sea dispute still smoldering. Besides the ASEAN members, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, India, Australia, New Zealand and the United States attended. Spat with Manila over slurThe Philippines' move came after a dispute with the United States, its former colonial power. "I think it is important for the entire region and it is important for the United States."

Source: Thanhnien News September 08, 2016 12:45 UTC